I’m the Only One With a Different Genre

46 – Strange Things Cause Indigestion.

“Bianca, if I’m any later, Iris will scold me. If it’s okay, could you take me out now?”

A polite request echoed in the midst of the absurd situation.

Bianca, with a vacant expression, looked down at her abdomen and soon reached the same conclusion as before.

“This is a crazy dream.”

With that, she fainted.

***

“Ah… where am I?”

Bianca was floating in a strange space. It felt like she was floating in water or being swept by waves.

In the peculiar sensation, Bianca couldn’t actively look around or do anything.

She just floated there, as if it were her duty, like a mission.

At that moment, something thick and damp licked her face and passed by.

“Eek!”

Startled, she opened her eyes wide and looked at the thing that had licked her face.

Kehehik, Kehek… Jjuin-nim.

For some reason, her shadow, standing with two legs (having stick-like legs), blushed her face and stood with a terrifying black tongue stretched out between its formidable teeth.

Bianca couldn’t help but faint at the resonating, sturdy voice mixed with a playful aegyo in her head.

“Huh? Wasn’t I in a dream?”

How could one faint in a dream?

She opened her eyes, pondering such thoughts.

Chirp, chirp, chirp.

A small, cute bird’s song and a clear sky greeted her.

“Where is this…”

A place where packaged roads and towering buildings rose in succession. She found herself in the location where Lian had lived in her past life.

Chirp, flap, squawk!

A charming bird, making cute sounds, suddenly opened its beak wide, and a barrel protruded from its throat. Flames burst out from the barrel and quickly retreated back into the bird’s throat.

“Darling, just listen to me once. I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear.”

Behind that peculiar bird, another with long feelers was flying and shouting with a eerie voice. Bewildered by the bizarre scene, Bianca immediately stood up.

“Wh-where is this again?”

With confusion in her eyes, she looked around. At that moment, from the nearest electronic product store on the street where she stood, a scream echoed from the TV.

[ Breaking news! Currently, it appears to be a green monster invading the city, but it’s actually a violet creature! ]

“What, what is this?”

In the sudden serious atmosphere, Bianca was both startled and confused.

Kwoong!

A colossal, unimaginably large foot landed beside her. The foot was pink.

“Ahhhh!”

Her body soared about three stories high and then tumbled to the ground.

“What, what is this!”

She screamed and started to run away. None of the surrounding circumstances made any sense to her.

…Her ordeal had only just begun.

***

“Ugh, ugh… blegh…”

Fainted, Bianca writhed on the floor, her entire body contorted. White foam bubbled at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were rolled back.

She rolled on the ground for a while, retching – making a wretching sound, she started to vomit.

Gag, cough… bleargh!

The shadow connected to her twisted in agony before finally spitting something out with a kuwack.

Sturdy.

“Oh… That was close.”

Lian wiped his forehead with a grin, his face covered in saliva.

“I almost dissolved in Bianca’s stomach acid.”

Although his body had quickly regenerated after being torn apart during ingestion, escaping from the stomach was quite a challenge.

Fortunately, the shadow that had been poking the stomach wall seemed to help me vomit.

“By the way, are you okay?”

With saliva dripping, Lian, considering the unconscious Bianca, chuckled before trying to lift her and lay her on the sofa. However, Bianca woke up before reaching the sofa.

“Kyaaa!”

She screamed, falling off me. Being close to the sofa, Bianca rolled on it instead of the floor.

Thud.

There was a loud noise as she hit the floor, but she ignored the pain and continued crawling on the ground.

Instinctively, she realized that all the horrific events that had befallen her were due to Lian, and she became aware of the terrifying power that still lingered in him.

“No, stay away! No, I don’t want it anymore!”

She screamed like a madwoman, crawling on the floor as if desperately fleeing from something. I wrinkled my forehead, sniffing the damp smell from my moistened body, and spoke.

“Miss Bianca, could you perhaps clean up and leave? Iris has a habit of hugging strangers, and it might be a bit awkward if you go down like this. Your clothes are also ruined.”

“Do whatever you want! Just go away… Ugh, please, just go away!”

Bianca, with a pale face, pulled the curtain to cover her face. Nodding at the shivering Bianca, I thought, ‘Let her do as she pleases.’ She looked so pitifully terrified.

“Thank you for your permission! I’ll be done soon and leave!”

Lian thought that Bianca’s strange behavior was just a result of upset stomach. Normally, he would have given her medicine, but the unpleasant memory of her pet being eaten made him refrain from doing so.

‘Better put a muzzle on animals that chew or swallow well.’

Grumbling, Lian entered the luxurious bathroom. He took off his torn clothes, used the pleasantly scented shampoo and body wash to wash thoroughly.

“Feels good.”

Exhaling a small sigh while applying the warm water to his body, he decided to skip the large tub due to time constraints.

After quickly washing, he dried himself, put on a robe, and went out.

“Bianca?”

Bianca was nowhere to be seen. Unable to go down just in a robe, he headed for the space she had indicated as a closet.

‘I’ll return it after washing later.’

She smiled as she looked at clothes, both too large and too small, that seemed unfit for her. She had mentioned before that there were clothes in the closet that her previous disciples had worn.

It seemed true that she hadn’t thrown them away due to nostalgia; the closet was full of them. Among the hanging clothes, I found ones that fit my physique. The design was identical to the slave clothes I used to wear, but that was fine. If the clothes changed, Iris might have had concerns.

“This should be discreet enough.”

I slipped out of the room, brushing against fabric softer than what I had worn before.

“I should say I’m borrowing the clothes, but she doesn’t seem to notice.”

I considered leaving a note, but there was no sign of a pen or paper, and Iris might be waiting, so I quietly left her house.

“What if she cries?”

Thinking of Iris’s tearful face, I took the elevator down. From the innermost room of Bianca’s house, where Lianne had left, came a constant murmur.

“Scary, scary, scary. Stop, please, please, please stop now! I made a mistake, I’m sorry, really sorry!”

She seemed completely out of her mind about something in her dream. She looked almost like a malfunctioning robot.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry. I’m sorry, so please, please, aaah!”

She was losing it by the second. It was the result of picking up something strange recklessly.

***

Sniff, sniff, sniff.

“Oh, Iris?”

Sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff.

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When I returned to the room, Iris threw herself on the sofa and, after sniffing me, climbed onto me, sniffing eagerly as if checking the scent of the returning owner, much like a dog.

“Do I smell bad?”

“…Yes.”

“…!”

Thunk!

Surprised, I opened my mouth, and Iris, with a slightly disgusted expression, lay flat on top of me.

“What are you doing?”

“Smell. Buried.”

Saying so, Iris nuzzled her face into my chest. I couldn’t help but laugh at her adorable gesture.

“Does it smell weird?”

“…Yeah.”

Iris nodded, pursing her lips.

‘She seemed to like the smell quite a bit, but it looks like Iris isn’t a fan.’

Thinking of the luxurious shampoo and body wash, I gently stroked Iris’s head. After sniffing a few more times, Iris succumbed to the warmth and fell asleep.

“Ah… I’m so tired.”

Feeling the warmth of the child’s high body temperature, my eyelids grew heavy. I succumbed to sleep in that drowsy state.

***

As Lian embraced Iris and drifted into sleep, Totojen chewed on his nails, muttering to himself.

“This time, it will surely succeed, won’t it?”

If not dozens, then hundreds.

Totojen had spent a considerable amount of money ordering powerful spells.

In a few days, in the matches that were about to happen, Lian would either be shattered or succumb to a powerful force, corrupted. The anticipation in such situations was accompanied by a nervousness that made his legs tremble.

It’s human nature to have both expectations and fears when you’ve invested a lot. Totojen was precisely in that state.

‘If I fail this time, -… No, no. It will definitely succeed!’

After a few days, Lian once again participated in a match.